Cosmic Catastrophe

[freebeard]

I don't recall the red pill part, but Lucas, et al, 'lifted' mainly from Valérian_and_Laureline -- 1967 and John_Carter_of_Mars -- 1912

[aerohead]

I over-reported solar wind intensity last go-around by a few orders of magnitude.
The correct value is : 1000-million times weaker than terrestrial wind strength, and is measured in nanopascals, whereas, winds in the lower atmosphere are measured in the 100,000 pascals.

[aerohead]

Major flares are no predictor of magnetic storms, as no one can say how impinging fields will be oriented.
While a solar 'day' is 26-Earth days long, the Sun's surface rotates with a variable-periodicity of 23-32-Earth days in length. A nine-day variability, depending on solar latitude.
Aurorae, produced by magnetic 'storms' occur from 42-to- 192 miles 'above' Earth's atmosphere.
Any solar surface, or solar atmospheric temperature of 1-million degrees Kelvin or above produces X-rays.
X-rays are completely filtered by Earth's atmosphere. They pose no threat.

[freebeard]

Major flares are no predictor of magnetic storms, as no one can say how impinging fields will be oriented.

They would still be a gating factor.

[aerohead]

And for the sake of the audience, you'd care to expand on 'gating factor'?

[freebeard]

Always thinking of the lurkers.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gating+factor&ia=web
Just say to yourself "Necessary but not sufficient".

[freebeard]

Part 2 of four or five parts from everyone's favorite mad scientist lurking in his lair:

Man Made UAP - Part 2 ' Death Ray Physics'

Some interesting comments dropped

Plasma's unique superpower is that it's affected by magnetism.

The Soviet Union paid Tesla's $25 million for his 'death ray' and built one in Siberia

The 'death ray' was really more of a shield than a ray.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Always thinking of the lurkers.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gating+factor&ia=web
Just say to yourself "Necessary but not sufficient".

Merriam-Webster Medical had a definition which resonated:
' a mechanism by which the passage of something is controlled.'
I can definitely see how you connected with the term!

[aerohead]

In Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged', John Galt created an electronic 'shield' over Galt's Gulch, which would render stealth to the entire community, in the event of an aerial interloper happening by overhead in an aircraft.

[freebeard]

I've not read Atlas Shrugged, but it was published in 1957.

Merriam-Webster Medical had a definition which resonated:...
I can definitely see how you connected with the term

It's a popular concept in computer science.